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What I'm saying is that passing the buck to individual preservers is the opposite of a call to collective action. 'Well I guess we're done screwed so you might as well defile when you can get away with it', to me, just validates apathy. Collective action means rallying against the sorcerer...

Okay, but why? The original fiction was always "the method to not ruining the environment exists, but it's gate-kept by the powerful elite class who benefit from the status quo." Which seems way more relevant to me than the notion of individuals making painful sacrifices for an ultimately...

It sounds like you're saying that Preserver spellcasters should be weaker than in D&D baseline, but that would require the game math to be reworked around it. The reason Preservers use the basic rules is so that everything still maths right. Defiling gets you more power quicker, at the cost of...

I mean it also completely ruins the land around the caster making it unable to sustain vegetation.

Not to mention all the other logistical hurdles. Thirteen players in a west marches game, while launching a new setting? That would be a nightmare to try and run and make entertaining while also learning to run a new system (and teaching players to play it). I kind of suspected from the moment...

Makes sense given how templars functioned in past editions.

I don't understand why people are so put off by this decision honestly. I'm personally less interested in watching a long-form Daggerheart AP because I have little interest in running the game. But people are acting like this is a shady move or displays a lack of confidence in their own game and...

Okay perhaps my word choice was bad, but I stand by my thoughts: Dark Sun needs a level of sincerity to it, so it wouldn't work as a grimdark setting.

I'm not familiar with 30K But 40K is openly satircal by GamesWorkshop's own admission! Heck, just look at how Orks work in that setting and tell me I'm meant to see this as serious.

Name one non-parodic grimdark that doesn't suck.

The problem is that Dark Sun was never really a humor setting, so a grimdark Dark Sun doesn't work. Grimdark only works as a parody.

It doesn't have to be a moral choice. The economics of slavery aren't what they're cracked up to be, especially in an ecosystem like Athas. It might just be more efficient to make them serfs. Fewer rebellions, they feel like they have something of their own, and you don't have to constantly...

I kind of have to imagine that Brennan might have had a say in the choice of system. Like does he even like running Daggerheart? I certainly wouldn't want to launch a major worldbuilding/actual play project with 13 players in a brand new system.

...They do?

So? Every new edition presents settings in their own way. Dark Sun in 2E isn't quite the same as Dark Sun in 4E. Dark Sun in 5E is clearly still focused on the environmental devastation and tyranny themes. That's the core of the setting.

I do not understand what the problem is. The UA looks fine. You have two evil subclasses even.

Uh... this is not the forum for 4th Edition homebrew.

Not listening to some AI bot drone on about Eberron. I wish D&D Youtubers were held to the same standard as WOTC when it comes to AI slop.

If there's a technology I would replace, it's the computers that rendered this abomination of a movie.

The Mystara book about the Gnomish biplanes. On a side note: Mystara flippin rules and WOTC are cowards for not bringing it back.